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Volume II Contents: Maryland -- New Netherland -- The People Called Quakers In The United States -- Pennsylvania -- James II. Consolidates The Northern Colonies -- The Revolution of 1688 -- The Result Thus Far -- The Southern States After The Revolution -- The Middle States After The Revolution -- New England After The Revolution -- The Rule of Parliament And The Colonies -- Progress Of France In North America -- France And The Valley Of The Mississippi -- France Contends For The Fisheries And The Great West -- War Of The Spanish Succession -- The Aborigines East Of The Mississippi. Their Languages -- Their Manners, Polity, and Religion -- Their Nature and Origin -- Colonial Rivalry Of France And England -- Progress Of Louisiana -- Twenty-Six Years Of Colonial Administration Under The House Of Hanover -- British Monopoly Of The Slave-Trade. Colonization Of Georgia -- War Between Great Britain and Spain

Volume III Contents: America Claims Legislative Independence of England. Pelham's Administration. 1748 -- The Royal Governor Of New York Appeals To The Paramount Power Of Great Britain. Pelham's Administration Continued, 1748-1749 -- The Exploration of Ohio. Pelham's Administration Continued -- America Refuses to be Ruled by Arbitrary Instructions. Pelham's Administration Continued. 1751-1753 -- Franklin Plans Union for the American People. Pelham's Administration Continued. 1753-1754 -- The Old Thirteen Colonies. Newcastle's Administration. 1754 -- The Ministers are Advised to Tax America by Act of Parliament New Castle's Administration. 1754-1755 -- England and France Contend for the Ohio Valley and for Acadia. Newcastle's Administration Continued. 1755 -- Great Britain Unites America Under Military Rule. Newcastle's Administration Continued. 1755-1756 -- The Whig Aristocracy cannot Govern England. Newcastle's Administration Continued. 1755-1756 -- The Whig Aristocracy cannot Conquer Canada. Anarchy in the Administration. 1757 -- The New Protestant Powers Against the Catholic Powers of the Middle Age. William Pitt's Ministry -- Conquest of the Valley of the Wet. William Pitt's Ministry Continued. 1757-1758 -- The Conquest of Canada Pitt's Ministry continued. 1759 -- Invasion of the Valley of the Tennessee. Pitt's Administration Continued. 1759-1760 -- Possession Taken of Michigan and the Country on the Lakes. Pitt's Administration Continued. 1760 -- The King and the Aristocracy Against the Great Commoner. George III. Drives Pitt from the Cabinet. 1760-1761 -- The Acts of Trade Provoke Revolution. The Remodelling of the Colonial Governments. 1761-1762 -- The King Drives Out the Newcastle Whigs. The Dawn of the New Republic. 1762 -- England, Grasping at the Colonies of France and Spain, Risks Her On, Bute's Ministry, 1762-1763 -- The Continent of Europe. 1763 -- The Continent of Europe. France. 1763 -- England and its Dependencies. 1763 -- England and its Dependencies Continued. 1763 -- Charles Townshend Pledges the Ministry of Bute to Tax America by the British Parliament, and Resigns. February-April, 1763 -- The Triumvirate Ministry Pursue the Plan of Taxing America by Parliament. April-May, 1763 -- Pontiac's War. The Triumvirate Ministry Continued. May-September, 1763 -- The Treasury Enter a Minute for an American Stamp-Tax. Ministry of Grenville and Bedford. May-September, 1763 -- Enforcement of the Acts of Navigation. Grenville's Administration Continued. October, 1763-April, 1764 -- How America Received the Plan of a Stamp Act. Grenville's Administration Continued. April-December, 1764 -- The Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain Passes the Stamp Act. Grenville's Administration Continued. January-April, 1765 -- The Ministry Offend the King as Well as the Colonies. Grenville's Administration Continued. April-May, 1765 -- The Day-Star of the American Union. April-May, 1765 -- South Carolina Founds the American Union, June-July, 1765 -- The Duke of Cumberland Forms a Ministry, The Rockingham Whigs. June-July, 1765 -- How the Stamp Officers were Handled in America. Rockingham's Administration. August-September, 1765 -- America Reasons Against the Stamp Act. Rockingham's Administration Continued. September, 1765 -- The Colonies Meet in Congress. Rockingham's Administration Continued. October, 1765 -- America Annuls the Stamp Act. Rockingham's Administration Continued October-December, 1765 -- Parliament Learns that America has Resisted. Rockingham's Administration Continued. December, 1765-January, 1766 -- Has Parliament the Right to Tax America? Rockingham's Administration Continued. January, 1766 -- Parliament Affirms its Right to Tax America. Rockingham's Administration Continued. February, 1766 -- The Repeal of the Stamp Act. Rockingham's Administration Continued. February, 1766 -- The House of Lords Give Way with Protests. Rockingham's Administration Continued. February-May, 1766

Volume IV Contents: The Charter of Massachusetts Bay in Peril. The Fall of the Rockingham's Administration. May-July, 1766 -- Coalition of the King and the Great Commoner Against the Aristocracy. The Administration of Chatham. July-October, 1766 -- Charles Townshend Usurps the Lead in Government. Chatham's Administration Continued. October, 1766-January, 1767 -- The British Aristocracy reduce their own taxes. Defeat of Chatham's administration by the Mosaic opposition. January-March, 1767 -- Parliament will have an American army and an American revenue. Charles Townshend's supremacy in the administration March-July, 1767 -- How Townshend's American taxes were received by France and America. Coalition of the king and the aristocracy. July-November, 1767 -- Massachusetts consults her sister colonies. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies. November, 1767-February, 1768 -- An American empire is in the divine decrees. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. February-march, 1768 -- An army and a fleet from Boston. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. April-June, 1768 -- Does Massachusetts rescind? Hillsborough's administration continued. June-July, 1768 -- The regulations of North Carolina. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. July-September, 1768 -- The town of Massachusetts meet in convention. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. September, 1768 -- The Celtic-American republic on the banks of the Mississippi. September-October, 1768 -- The king and the British parliament against the town of Boston Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. October-December, 1768 -- A way to take off the incendiaries. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. December, 1768-February, 1769 -- Virginia comes to the aid of Massachusetts. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. March-May, 1769 -- Republicanism in the east and the west. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. May-August, 1769 -- The non-important agreement enforced. The new tory party installed in power. August, 1769-January, 1770 -- The Boston massacre. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. January-March, 1770 -- The non-importation agreements fail. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. March-July, 1770 -- Martial law introduced into Massachusetts. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. July-October, 1770 -- The origin of Tennessee. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. October, 1770-June, 1771 -- Great Britain centres in itself power over its colonies. Hillsborough's administration of the colonies continued. June, 1771-August, 1772 -- The towns of Massachusetts hold correspondence. August, 1772-January, 1773 -- Virginia consolidates union. January-July, 1773 -- The Boston tea party. August-December, 1773 -- The king in council insults the great American plebeian. December, 1773-February, 1774 -- The crisis. February-May, 1774 -- America, Britain, and France, in May, 1774. May, 1774 -- New York proposes a general congress. May, 1774 -- Voices from the south. May, 1774, continued -- Massachusetts appoints the time and place for a general congress. June, 1774 -- Boston ministered to by the continent. June-July, 1774 -- America resolves to meet in general congress. July, 1774 -- The cabinet of Louis XVI. July-August, 1774 -- How the mandamus councillors were dealt with. August, 1774 -- Massachusetts defeats the regulating act. August, 1774 -- The Suffolk county convention. September, 1774 -- The Continent supports Massachusetts. September, 1774 -- The continental congress seeks to avert independence. September-October, 1774 -- Congress will make the last appeal if necessary. October, 1774 -- How Britain began catholic emancipation. October, 1774 -- The governor of Virginia nullifies the Quebec act. October-November, 1774 -- The fourteenth parliament of Great Britain. October-December, 1774 -- The king rejects the offers of congress. December, 1774-January, 1775 -- Chatham lays the foundation of peace. January 20, 1775 -- The people of New York true to union. January-February, 1775 -- Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. January 23-February 9, 1775 -- The spirit of New England. February, 1775 -- Has New England a right in the Newfoundland fisheries? -- The Anniversary of the Boston massacre. February-March, 1775 -- Public opinion in England. March, 1775 -- Virginia prepares for self-defence. March-April, 1775 -- The king waits to hear the success of Lord North's proposition. April-may, 1775 -- Lexington. April 19, 1775 -- To Concord and back to Boston. April 19, 1775 -- Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord. The alarm April, 1775 -- Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord continued. The camp of liberty. April-May, 1775 -- Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord continued. The general rising. April-May, 1775 -- Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord continued. Ticonderoga taken. May, 1775 -- Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord in Europe. may-July, 1775 -- The second continental congress. May, 1775 -- The revolution emanates from the people. may, 1775 -- Congress offers to negotiate with the king. May, 1775 -- Massachusetts asks for George Washington as commander in chief. June 1-17, 1775 -- Prescott occupies Breed's Hill. June 16-17, 1775 -- Bunker Hill Battle. June 17, 1775 -- The result of Bunker Hill Battle. June 17, 1775

Volume V Contents: The continental congress in midsummer, 1775. June 17-July, 1775 -- The army round Boston. July, 1775 -- Congress still hopes to avert war. July19-August, 1775 -- America awaits the king's decision. August-September, 1775 -- Congress still hopes to avert war. July19-August, 1775 -- America awaits the king's decision. August-September, 1775 -- Condition of the central provinces. July-October, 1775 -- Georgia and the Carolinas. July-October, 1775 -- Effect of bunker Hill Battle in Europe. July25-August, 1775 -- The question between Britain and America. August, 1775 -- The king and the second petition of congress. August, September, in Europe; November in America -- How George III. fared in his bid for Russians. September, October, 1775 -- Parliament is at one with the king. October-December, 1775 -- The capture of Montreal. August-November, 1775 -- the March to Quebec. September-November, 1775 -- The siege of Quebec. November, December, 1775 -- The royal governor of Virginia invites the servants and slaves to rise against their masters. November, December, 1775 -- The New Year. 1776 January, 1776 -- Britain engages foreign troops. November, 1775-February, 1776 -- Britain beats up for recruits in America. January, February, 1776 -- Boston delivered. February, March, 1776 -- The first act of independence. February-April, 1776 -- Turgot and vergennes. March-May, 1776 -- The example of the Carolinas and Rhode Island. February-May, 1776 -- The way to restore peace. May, 1776 -- Virginia proclaims the rights of man. May, June, 1776 -- The Virginia proposition of independence. May, June, 1776 -- The Battle of Fort Moultrie, The twenty-eighth of June, 1776 -- The retreat from Canada. January-July, 1776 -- The people of the united colonies demand independence. June, July, 1776 -- The resolution of independence. The first and second of July, 1776 -- The Declaration of the United States. July2-4, 1776 -- The thirteen United States. July, 1776 -- Confederation; signing the declaration. July-August 2, 1776 -- The Declaration of Independence in Europe. July-October, 1776 -- Battle of long island. August, 1776 -- The retreat from Long Island. August 27-30, 1776 -- The progress of the Howes. August 30-September 15, 1776 -- The embarrassments of America. September 15-30, 1776 -- The course of opinion in England. September 28-November, 1776 -- The border war in the north and in the south. July-November, 1776 -- White Plains. October 1-28, 1776 -- Fort Washington. October 29-November 16, 1776 -- Washington's retreat through the Jersey's. November 17-December 13, 1776 -- Trenton. December 11-26, 1776 -- Assanpink and Princeton. December 26, 1776-January, 1777 -- The constitutions of the several states of America. 1776-1783 -- Preparations of Europe for the campaign of 1777. France and Holland. December, 1776-May, 1777 -- Preparations of Europe for the Campaign of 1777, continued. The aspect of Spain of American independence, 1777 -- England prepares for the campaign of 1777. January-May, 1777 -- America before the opening of the campaign. March-May, 1777 -- The British evacuate New Jersey. March-July, 1777 -- The advance of Burgoyne from Canada. May-July 7, 1777 -- Progress of the campaign in the north. July-August 21, 1777 -- Sir William Howe takes Philadelphia. August-September 26, 1777

Volume VI Contents: The capitulation of Burgoyne. August 19-October 20, 1777 -- The contest for the Delaware River. September-November, 1777 -- The confederation. November 15th, 1777 -- Winter-quarters at Valley Forge. November, 1777-April, 1778 -- The United States and George III. 1777-1778 -- The United States and France. 1778 -- Europe and American independence. 1778 -- Germany and the United States. 1778 --The relations of the two new powers. 1778 -- The British retreat from Pennsylvania. may-June, 1778 -- How far America had achieved independence at the time of the French alliance. July-September, 1778 -- Spain and the United States. 1778 -- A people without a government. August-December, 1778 -- The king of Spain baffled by the backwoodsmen of Virginia. 1778-1779 -- Plan of peace. 1779 -- The war in the northern department. 1779 -- Progress of the war in Europe. 1779 -- The armed neutrality. 1778-1780 -- The was in the southern states. 1778-1779 -- The siege of Charleston. 1779-1780 - War in the south: Cornwallis and Gates -- Cornwallis and the men of the south and west. 1780 -- The rise of free commonwealths. 1780 -- The complot of Sir Henry Clinton and Arnold -- Striving for union. 1779-1781 -- Great Britain makes war on the Netherlands -- France has need of peace. 1780-1781 -- The southern campaign. Morgan at the Cowpens. 1780-1781 -- The southern campaign. Battle of Guilford court-house. January-march, 1781 -- The southern campaign. Greene in South Carolina. 1781 -- Campaign in Virginia. 1781 -- England refuses to continue the America War. 1782 -- Rockingham's ministry assents to American independence, 1782 -- Shelburne offers peace. July, August, 1782 -- Peace between the United States and Great Britain. 1782

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